Fulham stadium expansion plan includes new river walk and 4,000 more seats

[SuffolkWhite]

Well you may well get one as there should be more aisle seats with increased capacity! But yep do understand that.

[Riversider]

Well you may well get one as there should be more aisle seats with increased capacity! But yep do understand that.

As Suffolk White correctly points out, there will be thousands more aisle seats than there are at present, surely no reason why an existing season ticket holder shouldn't get they're preference,
Or is that being unreasonable ?

[MJG]

Well you may well get one as there should be more aisle seats with increased capacity! But yep do understand that.

As Suffolk White correctly points out, there will be thousands more aisle seats than there are at present, surely no reason why an existing season ticket holder shouldn't get they're preference,
Or is that being unreasonable ?

I could say there are bigger blocks, less aisles so less seats on them, but I wont ;-)

[HamsterWheel]

I suspect the grumpies will be easily placated by optional heated seats and Thermos Flask holders in their new BrandXXCasinoRiverside Stand seats.

[MJG]

Chris who is on the FST  board and lives next to ground got a reply into the Substandard

[mrmicawbers]

Thanks MJG  and we'll done Chris.

[Twig]

Chris, top man.

[thebumponleroyshead]

I remember walking down the road towards Fulham Palace Road after Hamburg at home and seeing obviously very well-to-do people reveling in the victory and thinking how many of you or friends during the Ernie Clay era would have loved Fulham FC to have been swallowed up by the Thames. The times they were a changin'.

[toshes mate]

I have already expressed my feelings about local residents and their views but it is heartening to see Chris Gilbertson's printed rebuttal of the ES report.  For the record Ordnance Survey sheets for the area can be viewed from the National Library of Scotland (strange, I know) for the period when Fulham FC begun.  There were no houses to the western side of Fulham Palace Road down to the River Thames apart from the Palace, a penitentiary called St James's with almshouses nearby, Mill Shot Farm, Rosebank House, Crab Tree Wharf and some outhouses, around the time the football ground first appeared.  A farm track called Crab Tree Alley seems to mark the line of current day Stevenage Road.

Perhaps current day residents should reflect upon how the area developed after the arrival of the football ground and praise the simple fact they have a charismatic ground on their doorsteps and not an eyesore.

[Holders]

I have already expressed my feelings about local residents and their views but it is heartening to see Chris Gilbertson's printed rebuttal of the ES report.  For the record Ordnance Survey sheets for the area can be viewed from the National Library of Scotland (strange, I know) for the period when Fulham FC begun.  There were no houses to the western side of Fulham Palace Road down to the River Thames apart from the Palace, a penitentiary called St James's with almshouses nearby, Mill Shot Farm, Rosebank House, Crab Tree Wharf and some outhouses, around the time the football ground first appeared.  A farm track called Crab Tree Alley seems to mark the line of current day Stevenage Road.

Perhaps current day residents should reflect upon how the area developed after the arrival of the football ground and praise the simple fact they have a charismatic ground on their doorsteps and not an eyesore.

So, unless any  of them are over 120 years old, the ground was already there when they chose to move to the area.

[Fernhurst]

I suspect the grumpies will be easily placated by optional heated seats and Thermos Flask holders in their new BrandXXCasinoRiverside Stand seats.

Ohh, now I'm getting excited, please reserve me one ( does it come with travel rug and ear muffs?)

[Andy S]

I hope the council take all that into account before deciding that we can build a new stand at our old ground by the river

[toshes mate]

So, unless any  of them are over 120 years old, the ground was already there when they chose to move to the area.

The ground was already there before any of the current streets were even drawn up on plans let alone built.  Even families who have lived there from the first construction of a house will all post date the football ground (or field used for football) by at least a decade or more.  The only recognisable street names are all to the east and south of Fulham Palace Road (e.g Nestor Road, Fulham High Street) and there are very few of them.  Most of the land outside the Palace seems to have been farmland. 

[Twig]

I have already expressed my feelings about local residents and their views but it is heartening to see Chris Gilbertson's printed rebuttal of the ES report.  For the record Ordnance Survey sheets for the area can be viewed from the National Library of Scotland (strange, I know) for the period when Fulham FC begun.  There were no houses to the western side of Fulham Palace Road down to the River Thames apart from the Palace, a penitentiary called St James's with almshouses nearby, Mill Shot Farm, Rosebank House, Crab Tree Wharf and some outhouses, around the time the football ground first appeared.  A farm track called Crab Tree Alley seems to mark the line of current day Stevenage Road.

Perhaps current day residents should reflect upon how the area developed after the arrival of the football ground and praise the simple fact they have a charismatic ground on their doorsteps and not an eyesore.

To be fair I don't think Chris Gilbertson is the only local resident who appreciates Fulham being on his doorstep, there are plenty of local ST holders. But I think you make a very good point that the ground pre dates all of the residential building.  As to the NIMBYS, well through a bizarre coincidence I once worked under a CEO who had a very nice property close to the ground.  He was a total pr1ck who believed he and his cronies pretty much owned the borough.  He despised FFC but would have been quite happy to have had the Royal Opera House close by. Just the worst kind of snob.

[Riversider]

Why are we even discussing NIMBY's and objections , Chelsea had an objector (Who lives in a multi million pound next to their ground) to their 60k stadium rebuild,
Inside a week Hammersmith and Fulham Council listened to their objection and quashed it , so why should they treat us any differently ?
I think over the last 15 years (or however long it's been now) it's suited Al Fayed and now Khan to have delays, I think when were serious about getting this done we'll stop dragging our heels and get the job done,
The next 8 weeks will tell us whether , A, it's getting started in 2018 or B, yet another bull s**t excuse will be produced as to why it's being delayed until next year.

[mrmicawbers]

Only the Local residents who haven't improved their property should have a say and then be ignored.

[alfie]

I have already expressed my feelings about local residents and their views but it is heartening to see Chris Gilbertson's printed rebuttal of the ES report.  For the record Ordnance Survey sheets for the area can be viewed from the National Library of Scotland (strange, I know) for the period when Fulham FC begun.  There were no houses to the western side of Fulham Palace Road down to the River Thames apart from the Palace, a penitentiary called St James's with almshouses nearby, Mill Shot Farm, Rosebank House, Crab Tree Wharf and some outhouses, around the time the football ground first appeared.  A farm track called Crab Tree Alley seems to mark the line of current day Stevenage Road.

Perhaps current day residents should reflect upon how the area developed after the arrival of the football ground and praise the simple fact they have a charismatic ground on their doorsteps and not an eyesore.

There is no excuse for local residents who have come to the area i the last few years, my wife and I moved here 36 years ago, and one of the things we noticed was this bloody great football club at the end of the road.